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This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

A piece of solitude and tranquility in the heart of East Saint Paul.

This sprawling building built in 1890 was one of Minnesota’s earliest and largest mental health facilities.

Sleepy Minneapolis block beats Guinness Record for most churches on one city block.

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.

A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.

Thousands of people walk over this fantastic work of art every day, but how many notice it?

Summer in the "Turtle Racing Capital of the World" means rousing weekly reptile races.

The world's largest floating loon bobs in the lake to kick off an annual festival.

The first hand-illuminated, hand-written bible since the invention of the printing press.

Home to part of the world’s largest private collection of original manuscripts and documents.

A hidden oasis in the heart of Minneapolis is also an Important Bird Area.

One of the world's premier laboratories for hydraulic engineering research takes full advantage of the water's power.

A nerdcentric group and creators of the Nerd Prom.

A Foundry on a Sleepy Street.

A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

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This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

This quirky roadside attraction provides insight into Minnesota's logging history.

Terraced flowerbeds and rock sculptures in the midst of the Minnesota wilderness.

Where you can photograph wild black bears without worrying about becoming dinner.

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.